ata: libata-core: Add ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI for certain Samsung SSDs

PATCH Applied Niklas Cassel 2 participants 3 messages Mar 17, 2025 – Mar 18, 2025 libata

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Niklas Cassel

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2025-03-17 17:04 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 ata: libata-core: Add ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI for certain Samsung SSDs

Before commit 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type") the ATI AHCI controllers specified board type 'board_ahci' rather than board type 'board_ahci'. This means that LPM was historically not enabled for the ATI AHCI controllers.

By looking at commit 7a8526a5cd51 ("libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD."), it is clear that, for some unknown reason, that Samsung SSDs do not play nice with ATI AHCI controllers. (When using other AHCI controllers, NCQ can be enabled on these Samsung SSDs without issues.)

In a similar way, from user reports, it is clear the ATI AHCI controllers can enable LPM on e.g. Maxtor HDDs perfectly fine, but when enabling LPM on certain Samsung SSDs, things break. (E.g. the SSDs will not get detected by the ATI AHCI controller even after a COMRESET.)

Yet, when using LPM on these Samsung SSDs with other AHCI controllers, e.g. Intel AHCI controllers, these Samsung drives appear to work perfectly fine.

Considering that the combination of ATI + Samsung, for some unknown reason, does not seem to work well, disable LPM when detecting an ATI AHCI controller with a problematic Samsung SSD.

Apply this new ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI quirk for all Samsung SSDs that have already been reported to not play nice with ATI (ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI).

Fixes 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type")

Reported-by Eric <[email protected]>

Closes https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/[email protected]/ open here

Signed-off-by Niklas Cassel <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 include/linux/libata.h    |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

drivers/ata/libata-core.c +11 -3

index c085dd81ebe7f..d956735e2a764 100644
@@ -2845,6 +2845,10 @@ int ata_dev_configure(struct ata_device *dev)
 	    (id[ATA_ID_SATA_CAPABILITY] & 0xe) == 0x2)
 		dev->quirks |= ATA_QUIRK_NOLPM;
 
+	if (dev->quirks & ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI &&
+	    ata_dev_check_adapter(dev, PCI_VENDOR_ID_ATI))
+		dev->quirks |= ATA_QUIRK_NOLPM;
+
 	if (ap->flags & ATA_FLAG_NO_LPM)
 		dev->quirks |= ATA_QUIRK_NOLPM;

@@ -3897,6 +3901,7 @@ static const char * const ata_quirk_names[] = {
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_MAX_SEC_1024]	= "maxsec1024",
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_MAX_TRIM_128M]	= "maxtrim128m",
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI]	= "noncqonati",
+	[__ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI]	= "nolpmonati",
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_NO_ID_DEV_LOG]	= "noiddevlog",
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_NO_LOG_DIR]	= "nologdir",
 	[__ATA_QUIRK_NO_FUA]		= "nofua",

@@ -4142,13 +4147,16 @@ static const struct ata_dev_quirks_entry __ata_dev_quirks[] = {
 						ATA_QUIRK_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM },
 	{ "Samsung SSD 860*",		NULL,	ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
 						ATA_QUIRK_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM |
-						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI },
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI |
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI },
 	{ "Samsung SSD 870*",		NULL,	ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
 						ATA_QUIRK_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM |
-						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI },
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI |
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI },
 	{ "SAMSUNG*MZ7LH*",		NULL,	ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
 						ATA_QUIRK_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM |
-						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI, },
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI |
+						ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI },
 	{ "FCCT*M500*",			NULL,	ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_TRIM |
 						ATA_QUIRK_ZERO_AFTER_TRIM },

include/linux/libata.h +2 -0

index c1c57f814b98d..e5695998acb02 100644
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ enum ata_quirks {
 	__ATA_QUIRK_MAX_SEC_1024,	/* Limit max sects to 1024 */
 	__ATA_QUIRK_MAX_TRIM_128M,	/* Limit max trim size to 128M */
 	__ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI,	/* Disable NCQ on ATI chipset */
+	__ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI,	/* Disable LPM on ATI chipset */
 	__ATA_QUIRK_NO_ID_DEV_LOG,	/* Identify device log missing */
 	__ATA_QUIRK_NO_LOG_DIR,		/* Do not read log directory */
 	__ATA_QUIRK_NO_FUA,		/* Do not use FUA */

@@ -432,6 +433,7 @@ enum {
 	ATA_QUIRK_MAX_SEC_1024		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_MAX_SEC_1024),
 	ATA_QUIRK_MAX_TRIM_128M		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_MAX_TRIM_128M),
 	ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI),
+	ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI),
 	ATA_QUIRK_NO_ID_DEV_LOG		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_NO_ID_DEV_LOG),
 	ATA_QUIRK_NO_LOG_DIR		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_NO_LOG_DIR),
 	ATA_QUIRK_NO_FUA		= (1U << __ATA_QUIRK_NO_FUA),

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Damien Le Moal

maintainer Reviewed-by on v1 1/1

2025-03-18 08:42 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 23 lines · Niklas Cassel

Before commit 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type") the ATI AHCI controllers specified board type 'board_ahci' rather than board type 'board_ahci'. This means that LPM was historically not enabled for the ATI AHCI controllers.
By looking at commit 7a8526a5cd51 ("libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD."), it is clear that, for some unknown reason, that Samsung SSDs do not play nice with ATI AHCI controllers. (When using other AHCI controllers, NCQ can be enabled on these Samsung SSDs without issues.)
In a similar way, from user reports, it is clear the ATI AHCI controllers can enable LPM on e.g. Maxtor HDDs perfectly fine, but when enabling LPM on certain Samsung SSDs, things break. (E.g. the SSDs will not get detected by the ATI AHCI controller even after a COMRESET.)
Yet, when using LPM on these Samsung SSDs with other AHCI controllers, e.g. Intel AHCI controllers, these Samsung drives appear to work perfectly fine.
Considering that the combination of ATI + Samsung, for some unknown reason, does not seem to work well, disable LPM when detecting an ATI AHCI controller with a problematic Samsung SSD.

Quoted 7 lines

Apply this new ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI quirk for all Samsung SSDs that have already been reported to not play nice with ATI (ATA_QUIRK_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI).
Fixes 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type")
Reported-by Eric <[email protected]>
Closes https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/[email protected]/ open here
Signed-off-by Niklas Cassel <[email protected]>

Looks OK to me.

Reviewed-by Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research

Niklas Cassel

author maintainer Applied

2025-03-18 09:14 UTC #2 lore raw

In reply to Niklas Cassel

Quoted 5 lines · Niklas Cassel

Before commit 7627a0edef54 ("ata: ahci: Drop low power policy board type") the ATI AHCI controllers specified board type 'board_ahci' rather than board type 'board_ahci'. This means that LPM was historically not enabled for the ATI AHCI controllers.

Quoted 7 lines

By looking at commit 7a8526a5cd51 ("libata: Add ATA_HORKAGE_NO_NCQ_ON_ATI for Samsung 860 and 870 SSD."), it is clear that, for some unknown reason, that Samsung SSDs do not play nice with ATI AHCI controllers. (When using other AHCI controllers, NCQ can be enabled on these Samsung SSDs without issues.)
[...]

Applied to libata/linux.git (for-6.14), thanks!

[1/1] ata: libata-core: Add ATA_QUIRK_NO_LPM_ON_ATI for certain Samsung SSDs

      https://git.kernel.org/libata/linux/c/f2aac4c7

Kind regards,
Niklas